Va. Megachurch pastor to the head of Gateway Church

Daniel Floyd, a pastor in Megachurch in Virginia, becomes Senior Pastor of the Gateway Church, the community plagued by Scandal in Dallas, which was founded by the accused Child molester Robert Morris.

In 2005 Floyd and his wife Tammie founded both Lifepoint Church in Fredericksburg, a suburb of 54 miles south of Washington, DC, which has grown at five locations around the Commonwealth since then. Both husband and wife serve as older pastors at Lifepoint, but a Dallas Morning News The report on the appointment did not show a similar position on the gateway for Tammie Floyd.

When asked what role she would play in the gateway, a spokesman said The Roys report (TRR) By e -Mail “(n) o, at this point in time, from today's news, but we will get in touch once more details.”

The Floyds also serve in the senior team for the Association of Related Churches (ARC), a church plant organization in which numerous sexual abuse scandals belonged under their network churches and were closely connected to Gateway.

Morris served as a supervisor in the ARC flagship of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama, but resigned in the middle of his sexual abuse scandal. Gateway also organized ARC conferences in the past, including a pastor conference in 2022 with a chiculated pastor Mark Driscoll.

Gateway has been Morris since the 63 -year -old, who resigned last year, without a senior pastor.

The gateway, which was present in 2023 a weekly number of visitors of 26,000, was shaken last year by disclosing that Morris was bothering the12-year-old Cindy Clemshire in 1982 when he worked as a traveler evangelist in Oklahoma. The church has rank since then – at some point the ranking The ninth congregation in the USA recorded a massive decline in presence and giving.

The Floyds announced that they would leave Lifepoint this morning during the service in Virginia Megachurch.

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Gateway also published a video announcement with a personal greeting from the Floyds on his website today. In it, the couple said that they considered the pastoral position as a “holy calling” and found that they would visit the Gateway Church next weekend.

Bestselling author Max Lucado has been a preliminary teaching pastor on the gateway since Morris, while he has retained his role in the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio.

Morris was charged with indecent or indecent acts with a child for five crimes and is faced with a preliminary hearing in September. He is now looking for millions of dollars of pension benefits, a claim -gateway that was rejected in a court registration dated May 13.

According to Dallas' newspaper account, Tra Willbanks, who heads the older board of Gateway, Daniel Floyd in January about the opportunity to take over the reins and to do “many repair work in a community”.

Floyd spoke to his communities in Virginia on Sunday and said he was not looking for a job when the call came.

“We didn't search for it. We have never looked so that we are somewhere here,” said the Lifepoint leader, accompanied by his wife on stage. “But like 20 years ago, it started with a call. And we had conversations before, but this time it was different.”

Floyd and his wife “felt the hand of God in this,” he said, and “From the beginning we have transmitted this process to our supervisor, who is our spiritual cover here. We were looking for their prayer, lawyer and wisdom.”

He said you also “involved other mentors and spiritual consultants in our lives, we have also invited our management team to this process.”

Lifepoint has already selected his next leading pastoral guides, and Floyd said he would announce the election on June 1st. He will probably start in Gateway at some point in August.